What follows is our conversation once we finished both. Quinn provided us with both books, and asked me to read Wyndham first, and asked Jane to read Cavendish first. More succinctly, as Jane put it: two men. Then, surprise, some dude name Jack shows up, and suddenly the question of who is the Duke of Wyndham and who will marry whom consumes the family – not to mention the question of how awful can one dowager be? (The answer: holy shit.) The books examine the same sequence of events from varying perspectives (what I called the Twin of Ice/Twin of Fire treatment), allowing readers to experience two sets of heroes, two sets of heroines, and two pairs of protagonists struggling to figure out who and what they are while battling honor, history, and attraction. Grace and Thomas have a quiet but unlikely friendship of sorts, and the less said about the Dowager, the better. His grandmother, the Dowager, lives with him, along with her companion, a young woman named Grace. Thomas, the Duke of Wyndam, is betrothed to Amelia, though he shows little interest in actually getting to know her. Or, you saved Wyndham so you could read Cavendish first? Or you’ve read both and wonder if your sequence would have been improved had you read the latter first? Jane and I are here to answer all these questions you probably didn’t bother to ask yourself.īoth books contain the same story from two different pairs of perspective. I realize that the following is a ridiculous concept to anyone who really, really digs Quinn – but suppose you saved up The Lost Duke of Wyndham since its release date back in May, so you could read it back to back with Mr.

This is classic Sarah – I could blithely read through any number of historical anachronisms, but a MISSING DOG?! OMG. Way, way back in the day, like, six or seven years ago, I emailed her via her website to ask what had happened to the dog in the opening scenes of Minx, as the heroine saves a young boy who ran out into the street after his puppy, and the puppy’s safety isn’t mentioned again. Side story: Quinn is also one of the very first romance authors I ever interacted with personally. One of my favorites is easily one of the top romances I’ve read (That’d be The Duke and I, which if I go near it, it sucks me in and I reread the whole goddam thing no matter how much I have to do).

Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn